**NOTE** The burn ban is still in effect.
Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Dry and cool high pressure controls our weather through Wednesday. Low pressure tracks east across Florida on Thursday and Friday bringing clouds but little if any rain to our area. A cold front crosses our region Friday night but will be limited in moisture so only expecting small amounts of rain.
The Macon County Board of Commissioners are meeting tonight at 6pm in the county courthouse [LINK]. The Macon County Board of Health is also meeting at the same time, but in the Health Department.
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Burn ban issued for 14 counties in Western North Carolina due to hazardous forest fire conditions Local Weather
General Forecast Through Wednesday Night
Today
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 30s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Cloudy, with highs near 60. Light and variable winds.
Wednesday Night
A 20 percent chance of rain after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40. Calm winds.
Thursday
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Partly sunny, with highs in the upper 50s. Winds out of the northeast around 5 mph becoming light and variable before noon.
Tonight
Cloudy, with lows in the upper 30s. Winds out of the east 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday
Mostly cloudy, with highs near 50. Winds out of the east 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday Night
A 20 percent chance of rain after 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40. Winds out of the northeast 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday
A 20 percent chance of rain before 10am. Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 10pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid 40s.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Wednesday
Mostly cloudy, with highs in the upper 50s. Light winds out of the southeast.
Wednesday Night
A 20 percent chance of rain after 10pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40. Calm winds.
Thursday
Partly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s.
Nantahala Area
Today
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40. Light winds out of the southeast.
Wednesday
Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night
A slight chance of rain between 11pm and 4am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 40s. Light winds out of the southeast. Chance of rain is 20%.
Thursday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 60. Light winds out of the southeast.
Thursday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 40s.
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Hazards
Hazardous weather is not expected today. The burn ban for Macon County is still in effect. Please put off any outdoor burning until after the ban is rescinded.
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On This Day
November 14 is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 47 days remain until the end of the year.
Historical Events
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
1380 – King Charles VI of France crowned at age 12
1524 – Francisco Pizarro begins his 1st great expedition, near Colombia
• [Wikipedia Bio: Francisco Pizarro]
• [Francisco Pizarro - what was he like?]
• [Francisco Pizarro and the Conquest of Peru (FULL Audiobook)]
1550 – Pope Julius III proclaims new seat on Council of Trente
1666 – Samuel Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs)
1675 – Pope Clemens X declares Gorcumse martyrs divine
1680 – German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope.
• [Wikipedia: Great Comet of 1680]
• [Wikipedia Bio: Gottfried Kirch]
• [LINKTEXT]
1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.
1812 – Napoleonic Wars: At the Battle of Smoliani, French Marshals Victor and Oudinot are defeated by the Russians under General Peter Wittgenstein.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Smoliani]
• [Wikipedia: French invasion of Russia]
• [Napoleon in Russia ALL PARTS]
1851 – Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA.
1889 – Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.
1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
1914 – The Joensuu City Hall, designed by Eliel Saarinen, was inaugurated in Joensuu, Finland.
1918 – The Provisional National Assembly of the new republic of Czechoslovakia meets to devise a constitution.
1921 – The Communist Party of Spain is founded, and issues the first edition of Mundo obrero.
1922 – The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
1938 – The Lions Gate Bridge, connecting Vancouver to the North Shore region, opens to traffic.
1940 – World War II: In England, Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.
• [Wikipedia: Coventry Blitz]
• [Coventry Blitz Commemoration Service 14 November 2020]
• [The INSANE Secret Involving Winston Churchill]
• [BBC Timewatch - Coventry Blitz 1940]
1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from the German submarine U-81 sustained on November 13.
1941 – World War II: German troops, aided by local auxiliaries, murder nine thousand residents of the Słonim Ghetto in a single day.
1952 – The New Musical Express publishes the first regular UK Singles Chart.
1957 – The "Apalachin Meeting" in rural Tioga County in upstate New York is raided by law enforcement; many high-level Mafia figures are arrested while trying to flee.
• [Wikipedia: Apalachin meeting]
• [What Happened at The Apalachin Meeting in 1957?]
• [Mob Talk Radio: Infamous Apalachin Meeting]
1960 – Ruby Bridges becomes the first Black child to attend an all-White elementary school in Louisiana.
1965 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Ia Drang begins: The first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
• [Wikipedia: Battle of Ia Drang]
• ["Vietnam: The Soldier's Story" Doc. Vol. 1 - "Ambush! Battle of Ia Drang"]
• [The Battle of Ia Drang Valley (1965 CBS News Special)]
• [Wikipedia: Pleiku Campaign]
1967 – The Congress of Colombia, in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as "Day of the Colombian Woman".
1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.
• [Wikipedia: Apollo 12]
• [Apollo 12 Remastered (50th Anniversary Edition) [4K]]
• [Apollo 12 Mission Overview]
• [Apollo 12 Full Mission Video Playlist]
1970 – Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization.
1970 – Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including almost all of the Marshall University football team.
1971 – Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars.
1973 – In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.
1973 – The Athens Polytechnic uprising, a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–74, begins.
1975 – With the signing of the Madrid Accords, Spain abandons Western Sahara.
1977 – During a British House of Commons debate, Labour MP Tam Dalyell poses what would become known as the West Lothian question, referring to issues related to devolution in the United Kingdom.
1978 – France conducts the Aphrodite nuclear test as 25th in the group of 29 1975–78 French nuclear tests.
1979 – US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive Order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
1982 – Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.
1984 – Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.
1990 – After German reunification, the Federal Republic of Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder–Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland.
1991 – American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.
1991 – Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years in exile.
1995 – A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.
2001 – War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.
2001 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes a remote part of the Tibetan plateau. It has the longest known surface rupture recorded on land (~400 km) and is the best documented example of a supershear earthquake.
2003 – Astronomers discover 90377 Sedna, the most distant trans-Neptunian object.
2008 – The first G-20 economic summit opens in Washington, D.C.
• [2008 G20 Washington summit]
• [Financial crisis of 2007–2008]
• [Panic: The Untold Story of the 2008 Financial Crisis | Full VICE Special Report | HBO]
• [AP News: World leaders arrive for G20 summit, Bush speech]
• [Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis? Bombshell]
2012 – Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities with Hamas escalate.
2016 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes Kaikoura, New Zealand, at a depth of 15 km (9 miles), resulting in the deaths of two people.
2017 – A gunman kills four people and injures 12 others during a shooting spree across Rancho Tehama Reserve, California. He had earlier murdered his wife in their home.
2019 – A shooting occurs at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California, resulting in 3 deaths (including the perpetrator) and 3 injuries.
• [Wikipedia: November 2015 Paris attacks]
• [Paris Attacks 2015: Terror, Minute by Minute | The New York Times]
• ['10.01pm': Victim of November 2015 Paris attacks recounts horror • FRANCE 24 English]
• [Paris attacks: Did intelligence fail in France?]
• ['This is it. I love you. Goodbye': Inside the Bataclan - BBC Newsnight]
• [Paris Attacks: New Updates, At Least 100 Reported Dead]
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Published at 5:00am on Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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